Thomas Burnside

Thomas Burnside (28 July 1782-25 March 1851) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA 9) from 10 October 1815 to April 1816, succeeding David Bard and preceding William Plunkett Maclay.

Biography
Thomas Burnside was born in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1782, and he emigrated to Norristown, Pennsylvania in 1793. He became a lawyer in Bellefonte in 1804, and he served as deputy attorney general in 1809, in the State Senate from 1811 to 1814 and from 1823 to 1826, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1816, as president judge of the Luzerne district courts from 1815 to 1819, as president judge of the fourth judicial district from 1826 to 1841, and as an associate justice of the state Supreme Court from 1845 until his death in 1851.